Dipl.-Theol. Moritz Gräper

Current affiliations

  • Centre for Eastern Mediterranean History and Culture (GKM)

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Reception of the New Testament during Apartheid
  • Postcolonial Biblical Criticism
  • Christian-muslim Dialogue

Academic Education

since 07/2013Erstes Theologisches Examen (Hamburg/Nordkirche) = Diplom-Theologe durch die WWU
2011 - 2013Scholarship from the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation
10/2006 - 05/2013Studies in Protestant Theology in Hermannsburg and Münster
07/2012 - 12/2012Islamic Theology (İlahiyat) at OMU Samsun (Turkey)

Work Experience

since 08/2013Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Neutestamentlichen Seminar des FB 01
2010 - 2013Studentische Hilfskraft im Exzellenzcluster Religion und Politik sowie am Neutestamentlichen Seminar (PD Dr. de Vos/Prof. Dr. Hermut Löhr)
2006 - 2009Nachhilfe- und Klavierunterricht, Service in der Gastronomie, Wareneingang im Buchhandel, Gemüseverkauf im Obstgarten am Bohlweg

Functions and Memberships

since 2016Appointed Member of the Commission for Theological Education of the EMW
since 07/2015Pro Asyl e.V.
since 08/2014FC Münster 05
since 02/2014European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS)
since 02/2014Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
since 10/2013Centrum für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Mittelmeerraums (GKM)
since 08/2012Mmabana Foundation
since 10/2006Board member Freundeskreis St. Peter's Child Care e.V. (I LOVE HOPE)

Publications

Gräper, Moritz (2018)
In: Hermeneutische Blätter, 2018(1)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Gräper Moritz (2015)
In: Lessing Hanns, Dedering Tilman, Kampmann Jürgen, Smit Dirkie (eds.), Umstrittene Beziehungen. Protestantismus zwischen dem südlichen Afrika und Deutschland von den 1930er Jahren bis in die Apartheidzeit (=Contested Relations. Protestantism between…. Wiesbaden / Soweto / Kapstadt: Harrassowitz.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Gräper Moritz (2014)
Münster: LIT Verlag.
Type of Publication: Book (monograph)
Gräper Moritz (2009)
In: Wojciechowski Thomas (eds.), überLeben weltweit - Handbuch für einen Frewilligendienst im Ausland von Freiwilligen für Freiwillige. Hermannsburg: Ludwig-Harms-Haus.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)

Projects

Duration: 17/08/2015 - 25/08/2015
Type of project: Own resources project

Talks

Your God Is My God, But Your People Is Not My People. Othering in the New Testament and in Apartheid Theology
Gräper, Moritz (01/03/2016)
My Neighbour's God. Interfaith Spaces and Claims of Religious Identity, United Theological College (UTC), Bangalore, India
Type of talk: scientific talk
Neighbourly Love interculturally - The Challenges of Development Cooperation
Gräper, Moritz (03/02/2016)
13. Interdisziplinärer Studientag zum Thema Liebe, Kardinal von Galen Gymnasium Hiltrup, Münster
Type of talk: practical talk
The Christmas Narrative in Bible and Qur'an - Jesus in Interreligious Dialogue
Gräper, Moritz (14/12/2015)
Öffentlicher Vortrag, Augustinum Detmold, Detmold
Type of talk: practical talk
Tagged and Untagged Ways of Interpreting the Bible. A Dichotomy that Should Be Overcome
Gräper, Moritz (08/09/2015)
7th International UNISA Symposium in New Testament and Early Christian Studies, Wilderness Beach Hotel, Wilderness, South Africa
Type of talk: scientific talk
Bible and Apartheid. Some Spotlights in Biblical Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid Theology from a German Perspective
Gräper, Moritz (28/08/2015)
Public Lecture, University of Pretoria
Type of talk: scientific talk
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Doctorates

New Testament and Apartheid. Postcolonial Readings in New Testament Texts and their Reception during Apartheid
Candidate: Gräper, Moritz | Supervisors: Löhr, Hermut; Punt, Jeremy
Period of time: 01/09/2013 - 23/07/2017
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster